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Sections of time-like twistor spaces with light-like or zero covariant derivatives

Differential Geometry 2024-12-10 v2

Abstract

The conformal Gauss maps of time-like minimal surfaces in E13E^3_1 give sections of the time-like twistor spaces associated with the pull-back bundles such that the covariant derivatives are fully light-like, that is, these are either light-like or zero, and do not vanish at any point. For an oriented neutral 4n4n-manifold (M,h)(M, h), if JJ is an hh-reversing almost paracomplex structure of MM such that J\nabla J is locally given by the tensor product of a nowhere zero 1-form and an almost nilpotent structure related to JJ, then we will see that J\nabla J is valued in a light-like 2n2n-dimensional distribution D\mathcal{D} such that (M,h,D)(M , h, \mathcal{D} ) is a Walker manifold and that the square norm  ⁣J ⁣2\parallel\!\nabla J\!\parallel^2 of J\nabla J vanishes. We will obtain examples of hh-reversing almost paracomplex structures of E2n4nE^{4n}_{2n} as above. In addition, we will obtain all the pairs of hh-reversing almost paracomplex structures of E24E^4_2 such that each pair gives sections of the two time-like twistor spaces with fully light-like covariant derivatives.

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@article{arxiv.2305.14741,
  title  = {Sections of time-like twistor spaces with light-like or zero covariant derivatives},
  author = {Naoya Ando},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14741},
  year   = {2024}
}